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From: Frances Bishop <>
Subject: Re: [CATHOLIC] LG / Birmingham burials (was Baptismal Witnesses)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:40:15 -0700
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Hello Louise

Many thanks for sharing your results. Fascinating.
Here's another thought, based on local civic practices in the 20th
century. It's likely that undertakers/funeral directors were employed
to remove and re-bury remains. Said undertakers may have kept
registers, and those registers may have survived. (Here in Canada we
rely on funeral directors' records, but I don't know whether similar
records are available in the UK.)

It's also likely that the local civic authority (City of Birmingham)
would have been apprised of any such removals. In fact any re-burials
from the St. Chad's cemetery may have been in civic rather than
church cemeteries. An inquiry might not go amiss...

The following address is from www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WAR/deloyd/warcem.htm

BIRMINGHAM Principal Registrar,
Birmingham City Council,
Yardley Cemetery and Crematorium,
Yardley Road,
South Yardley,
Birmingham.
B25 8NA

This site shows Birmingham cemeteries and their start dates:
http://www.bmsgh.org/parish/warw/tyaib/cemeteries.htm

There is a link to: http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/cemeteries

extract: Cemeteries & Crematoria Headquarters:
Tele: 0121 708 2183
Fax: 0121 706 9142
e-mail: cems&

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>Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 21:16:07 +1000
>From: Louise GIBSON <>
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>Subject: Re: [CATHOLIC] was Baptismal Witnesses
>
>Hello Frances
>
>Many thanks for the references.
>I emailed the R/C Archivist for Birmingham and his reply has
>answered the problem. It appears that my Charles BROWN was buried at
>St Chad's in 1837, but not many years later, what was a church, was
>rebuilt to become the cathedral and in the process the new building
>extended over the original cemetery. What the Church in Birmingham
>does not know is whether the bodies in the original cemetery were
>exhumed and re-buried elsewhere or whether they are still under the
>cathedral.

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